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POLICE who opened up a child's Peppa Pig lunchbox found not crisps and juice but £120,000 worth of cocaine.
Officers delved into the colourful container after Magdalena Kowalska made a return trip from Bristol to Liverpool.
It is claimed Kowalska was part of a conspiracy to collect the Class A drugs and distribute them.
The 30-year-old, of Corinthian Court, Bristol, denies conspiracy to supply cocaine in September last year.
Two men – Lukasz Przyborowski and Paul McNulty – have pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge and await sentence.
James Haskell, prosecuting, told Bristol Crown Court it was September 15 last year when Kowalska was seen driving her white Audi car from Bristol to Liverpool.
Mr Haskell said: "It was a trip designed to collect drugs and bring them back to Bristol.
"The vehicle was stopped on the A38 near Bristol on its return.
"The defendant was driving."
The jury was told the Audi was taken to a police station and searched.
Mr Haskell said: "In the rear, in a child's Pepper Pig container, was a kilogramme of cocaine which was 75 per cent pure.
"It had a potential street value of £120,000.
"Those drugs came from a Mr Paul McNulty. His fingerprints were found on the packaging the cocaine was in."
Mr Haskell said in November last year police searched McNulty's home in Liverpool and in a recess under the stairs found £450,000 cash.
He told the jury: "The prosecution says the money related to his drug trafficking activities.
"Mr McNulty and Mr Przyborowski have pleaded guilty to their roles in that conspiracy.
"Therefore there is no doubt there was such a conspiracy in operation that day."
The court heard the issue in the case was whether or not Kowalska was in on an that agreement to supply drugs.
The prosecution alleges she knew what was going on and, during the course of the Liverpool trip, was instrumental in organising and arranging it.
It is producing evidence relating to two mobile phones, and their movements on the alleged drugs run.
One, ending in the numbers 444, was registered to Kowalska and she accepts that.
A second unregistered phone, ending in the numbers 031, is said to be her "dirty phone".
Mr Haskell said: "The prosecution says she discarded it during the return journey.
"When police stopped the car on the A38 it was not there.
"The prosecution says it was linked to the collection of those drugs."
Kowalska told police she took an acquaintance to Liverpool so he could meet a girl, but the girl didn't arrive and instead they returned to Bristol after her friend was given the Peppa Pig package.
Mr Haskell told the court: "The prosecution says her account is nonsense."
The case continues.
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POLICE who opened up a child's Peppa Pig lunchbox found not crisps and juice but £120,000 worth of cocaine.
Officers delved into the colourful container after Magdalena Kowalska made a return trip from Bristol to Liverpool.
It is claimed Kowalska was part of a conspiracy to collect the Class A drugs and distribute them.
The 30-year-old, of Corinthian Court, Bristol, denies conspiracy to supply cocaine in September last year.
Two men – Lukasz Przyborowski and Paul McNulty – have pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge and await sentence.
James Haskell, prosecuting, told Bristol Crown Court it was September 15 last year when Kowalska was seen driving her white Audi car from Bristol to Liverpool.
Mr Haskell said: "It was a trip designed to collect drugs and bring them back to Bristol.
"The vehicle was stopped on the A38 near Bristol on its return.
"The defendant was driving."
The jury was told the Audi was taken to a police station and searched.
Mr Haskell said: "In the rear, in a child's Pepper Pig container, was a kilogramme of cocaine which was 75 per cent pure.
"It had a potential street value of £120,000.
"Those drugs came from a Mr Paul McNulty. His fingerprints were found on the packaging the cocaine was in."
Mr Haskell said in November last year police searched McNulty's home in Liverpool and in a recess under the stairs found £450,000 cash.
He told the jury: "The prosecution says the money related to his drug trafficking activities.
"Mr McNulty and Mr Przyborowski have pleaded guilty to their roles in that conspiracy.
"Therefore there is no doubt there was such a conspiracy in operation that day."
The court heard the issue in the case was whether or not Kowalska was in on an that agreement to supply drugs.
The prosecution alleges she knew what was going on and, during the course of the Liverpool trip, was instrumental in organising and arranging it.
It is producing evidence relating to two mobile phones, and their movements on the alleged drugs run.
One, ending in the numbers 444, was registered to Kowalska and she accepts that.
A second unregistered phone, ending in the numbers 031, is said to be her "dirty phone".
Mr Haskell said: "The prosecution says she discarded it during the return journey.
"When police stopped the car on the A38 it was not there.
"The prosecution says it was linked to the collection of those drugs."
Kowalska told police she took an acquaintance to Liverpool so he could meet a girl, but the girl didn't arrive and instead they returned to Bristol after her friend was given the Peppa Pig package.
Mr Haskell told the court: "The prosecution says her account is nonsense."
The case continues.
Read more: http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Peppa-Pig-cocaine-worth-120-000-woman-tracked/story-28919634-detail/story.html#ixzz43GHCDHj5
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